Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations Sourcing

2012-02-25 Thread Lodewijk
Hi Castelo, just to make the discussion clearer: could you just give say 5 or 10 examples of topics where you believe oral citations are unavoidable? Then I hope that Ziko in his turn can explain how we can write about those examples without using them. Best regards, Lodewijk No dia 25 de

Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations Sourcing

2012-02-25 Thread Ting Chen
Mountain, the first ever editor on zh-wp, and still active until today, told me the following story one day (it was before the Oral Citation project but I remembered the story very well): He came from the coast of Shandong, and his father told him that earlier there was a local tradition

Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations Sourcing

2012-02-25 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Yes Ting, and for these cases there is the method of [[oral history]]. This is a means to create what the Anglosaxons call primary sources. It is recorded and can later be used by a scholar (historian, ethnologist etc.) for his research, for his secondary sources. These, with their scholar

Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations Sourcing

2012-02-25 Thread Florence Devouard
On 2/25/12 2:12 AM, Castelo wrote: On 24-02-2012 07:48, Ziko van Dijk wrote: Leave the use of historical sources to historians, and then cite from their books. That's what historians are for. Kind regards Ziko Ziko, there's a lack of historians writing books outside Europe/US, specially on

Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations Sourcing

2012-02-25 Thread Ting Chen
Hello Ziko, I disagree :-) Yes, it is the way how classic encyclopedia worked. But Wikipedia is not a classic encyclopedia, and I don't see the sense to bound ourselves possibilities just to please some old traditional rules. Classic encyclopedias were written by scholars, Wikipedia is not.

Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations Sourcing

2012-02-25 Thread Castelo
On 25-02-2012 06:02, Lodewijk wrote: Hi Castelo, just to make the discussion clearer: could you just give say 5 or 10 examples of topics where you believe oral citations are unavoidable? Then I hope that Ziko in his turn can explain how we can write about those examples without using them.

Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations Sourcing

2012-02-25 Thread Castelo
On 25-02-2012 15:58, Michael Peel wrote: Actually, Wikipedia sort of is the place for original content - when it comes to illustrations in articles. Those illustrations are mainly in Commons, with exception of the images in fair use, but linked in the articles. That kind of original content

Re: [Foundation-l] Anti-ACTA protest tomorrow in Belgrade and blackout of Serbian Wikipedia

2012-02-25 Thread Milos Rancic
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 18:01, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: Tomorrow will be anti-ACTA protest in Belgrade and Wikimedia Serbia [1], along with the guests of GLAM conference [2] from France, India, Hungary, Italy, Czech Republic and Macedonia will be there. You will find here some

Re: [Foundation-l] Oral Citations Sourcing

2012-02-25 Thread Ziko van Dijk
As said, all the great things Oral history can be done - outside of Wikipedia. And what local Wikipedians like to do with it, will be decided in the community. Kind regards Ziko 2012/2/25 Castelo michelcastelobra...@gmail.com: On 25-02-2012 15:58, Michael Peel wrote: Actually, Wikipedia sort

Re: [Foundation-l] Anti-ACTA protest tomorrow in Belgrade and blackout of Serbian Wikipedia

2012-02-25 Thread Milos Rancic
Watch the first 2:40 of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3vVVOa-Euw :) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l